Stirling Council has become the first local authority in Scotland to successfully produce and sell compost made from its brown bin scheme using public waste.
The Composting Association recently awarded the council the British Standards Institution’s Publicly Available Specification for composted materials (Pas 100), allowing the compost to be used for landscaping, horticulture and agriculture. Since the brown bin scheme was introduced in 2003, the council has worked to convert more than 14,000t of rubbish, namely grass, leaves and cardboard, into saleable compost.
Despite the complexities involved in processing cardboard, Stirling Council is also the only authority to include the material in its brown bin waste scheme. However, over the last few years, some 900t of other waste, including glass, metal, plastic, cans and sellotape had to be removed before the compost could be considered high quality.
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